CARFMS Graduate Student Essay Contest WinnersCARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest Winners 2019 Student Essay Contest The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) seeks to foster an independent community of scholars dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of Canadian refugee and forced migration research. The Association aims to engage students as active members of the Canadian refugee and forced migration research community, and invites students to participate in the seventh annual CARFMS Student Essay Contest. There are two categories: one for graduate or law students; and, one for undergraduate students. The CARFMS Student Essay Contest will recognize the most outstanding scholarship produced by students in the field of refugee and forced migration studies. A $500 prize will be awarded to one winner in each category (Graduate or Law and Undergraduate). The authors of the shortlisted papers will be invited to present their work at the 12th Annual CARFMS Conference, which will take place May 14-16, 2019 at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto. Papers submitted to the Student Essay Contest may address any issue relevant to refugee and forced migration studies, in Canada or elsewhere. The selection committee will shortlist three authors in each category: 1) undergraduate students; 2) graduate and law students (note that papers in the graduate/law category must be based on the analysis of empirical data). Subject to peer review, high quality short-listed papers will be considered for publication as working papers on the CARFMS website and/or in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. Eligibility Participants must be Canadian students or international students registered at a Canadian university. Papers from any disciplinary background are welcome.The student must be the sole author of the submitted paper.The authors of shortlisted papers will be invited to present their work in person at the 2019 CARFMS Conference. Application process and editorial guidelines Papers must be submitted on-line at http://carfms.org/student-essay-contest/ by 5:00 PM EST, January 15th, 2019.Papers may be submitted in either English or French.Papers must not exceed 7,500 words. Please use 12-point font and standard margins.Submissions must include an abstract of no more than 150 words, setting out the main arguments or findings of the paper.Papers should follow appropriate referencing conventions.The papers will be evaluated through an anonymous review process. Please do not include any identifying information in the paper.Submissions that do not meet the basic editorial guidelines will not be reviewed by the assessment committee. Any questions should be directed to: Morgan Poteet, PhD Research Associate, Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Director, Canadian Association of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) Associate Professor, Sociology, Mount Allison University...

Submissions are now closed CARFMS 2019 Call for Papers INTERROGATING INTEGRATION Hosted in collaboration with the Centre for Refugee Studies York University, Toronto May 14th to May 16, 2019 Preceded by CARFMS/CALACs collaborative mini-conference: Bridging the Gaps: Understanding Current Mobilities in the Caribbean and Latin America and their Policy Implications York University, Toronto May 13, 2019 Integration is a contested concept – most especially in the field of refugee and forced migration studies. Describing the act of combining distinct parts into a whole, the term is apt for advancing the inclusion of migrants within political communities, the mixture of diverse stakeholder perspectives, and more progressive global governance regimes. But integration is also coupled with processes of exclusion. State political boundaries rest on ongoing colonial practices and categories of thought that leave little room for Indigenous perspectives. The regional harmonization of state laws and policies regarding border controls, interdiction, economic migration, and asylum reinforce the contingency of political membership upon citizenship. Integration also highlights perpetual tensions between unity and diversity within and across diverse political communities. CARFMS 2019 will bring together scholars, practitioners, and those with lived experience of forced migration to reflect on the meanings, and pathways, to integration. CARFMS 2019 invites applications for innovative panels, workshops, sessions, presentations and demonstrations on the following themes: How do we define, support, and appraise the integration of refugees into communities? How do and should we integrate policies and practices for human mobilities? How can we support postcolonial refugee...